thoughts on 3betting when you have 30-50bbs

[FieryJustice]

This hand came up the other day in the sunday mil that got me thinking.

We were down to 200ish people. I had about 35bbs. I had 33 on the button. A guy who had been raising prob 25% of his hands made it 2.5bbs. I wanted to call but everyone in the room told me I was an idiot, so I decided to listen to them and reraise to 8bbs or so.

Assuming the 25% raiser is good, he is prob almost always pushing or folding. Why would I want to turn a hand with some value like 33 into a bluff when I could just call and prob stack the guy on a good flop for me? I think this basically applies to hands like suited connectors as well, and all other hands you would raise and not be too sure what to do, like AJ etc.

Also, while I have you all here, I kinda wanted to talk about small pairs as well. I see these people on tv all the time raising and reraising 22 like its the nuts. I know that I usually fold small pairs from ep and sure dont 3bet all in when them, yet it seems like a lot of people do it. Am I just retarded or do I simply not fully realize the value of small pairs?

Ok...thats it for now. Flame away. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]